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“In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”
― A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories
― A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― In a Free State
― In a Free State
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
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